There are other social networks with privacy concerns
As you might have noticed, we’ve spent quite a bit of time over the past year looking at the privacy issues surrounding social networks.
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Protecting personal information online – do young people get it?
Our Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart is worried that maybe they don’t. After conducting an investigation into Facebook’s privacy policies, we’re now turning our attention to youth as the school year gets underway. Because while they may be savvy about using social media, many of them still may not know how to create a secure online identity.
Read moreReport of Findings with respect to Facebook
(from our backgrounder)
Read moreStraight talk about Twitter
You may have noticed by now that we have a Twitter account. 260 of you have taken the step of following @privacyprivee – a remarkably optimistic and patient act on your part, as we haven’t been consistent or active in how we use that account.
Read moreWe’re launching our 2009 My Privacy & Me Video Contest!
We have exciting news that we hope you will share with your children, students, neighbours – whoever! We’re launching our 2009 My Privacy & Me National Video Competition for youth! Again, we’re asking 12- to 18-year-olds to create their own public service announcements on the issue of privacy. The videos should between 60 and 120 seconds long, and speak to other young people about how important privacy is. They can record the videos, animate them – present them however they like. And as long as the focus is on some aspect of personal privacy they can make it about whatever they want.
Read moreWe might want to cut the kid some slack
Every opportunity I get, I question young Canadians on why they share so much information so freely and so widely when using online sites and services. Being an aged adult, I often frame my questioning by citing the negative consequences that over sharing can produce: job loss, identity theft, even physical risk.
Read moreNeed for an organizational policy on online social networking
The Office recently issued a fact sheet on the use of online social networks in the workplace, and their impact on the privacy of employees and individuals.
Read moreWhen do you draw the blue line?
We each have personal limits when sharing information online. Sometimes these limits can seem arbitrary or illogical, and sometimes they’re just funny.
Read moreDo your young people “think before they upload”?
Did you know it’s Privacy Awareness Week in the Asia Pacific Region? If you’ve got young people in your life, who you’re trying to impart the privacy-awareness message to, have them check out the three-minute video, featured on our YouTube channel, that the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) launched to mark the week.
Read moreFurther evidence on how the online and the private truly MESH
Once again, folks from the Office attended “Canada’s web conference”, MESH 2009, in Toronto – a place where flacks, marketers, hackers, people with money to spend, people looking for money, and activists gather and talk about how the web is “affecting media, marketing, business and society as a whole”.
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